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(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1819). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1819 - Part I. Pp. 11-27, 1 textillustr. First appearance of one of Brewsters importent paper in the field of optical mineralogy, a field he himself created. In the paper he investigates the polarization-force of double refracting crystals. In 1819 he was able to group all but a few of hundreds of minerals and crystals into mutually consistent optical and mineralogical categories: the primitive form determined the number of axes of double refraction."He regarded "all the various phenomena of polarisation of light by reflexion and refraction as brought under the dominion of laws as well determined as those which regulate the motions of the planets." In 1816 he received the Copley Medal, in 1819 two Rumford Medals, and in 1831 a Royal Medal for the papers in which he announced these discoveries. On the popular level, Brewster’s reputation was established in 1816 by the fad for his kaleidoscope. Its invention was a direct result of his studies of the ory of polarization by multiple reflections."(DSB).

Leipzig und Berlin, Teubner, 1909-10. Both parts with orig. printed wrappers. Frontwrapper on part 2 a bit frayed and loose. V,159 pp. First edition. Schröder contributed substantually to the development of mathematical logic as an independent discipline in the second half of the nineteenth century and he was one of the first to give support to Cantor's ideas.

(Paris, Crochard, 1823). Without wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, par Gay-Lussac et Arago", tome 24, Sec. Series, Cahier 2. Pp. 163-191. (Entire issue offered pp. 113-223. First appearance of Dumas and Pelletier's importent paper in which they analyzed nine alkaloids by combustion and found for the first time the number of atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen in them. Dumas' name is still associated with the two procedures which he devised here, the determination of vapor density and combustion analysis."The most important problem with which Dumas was concerned throughout his career was the classification of chemical substances. He sought to devise comprehensive classificatory schemes for organic compounds and for the elements. Dumas’s earliest contribution to organic chemistry was his study of nine alkaloids, published in 1823, jointly with Pierre Pelletier.1 He analyzed the elemental constituents of these organic “bases” and attempted to prove that their relative proportions of oxygen followed Dalton’s law of multiple proportions. He had embraced the ideas of the two reigning theories in contemporary chemistry: dualism, with its division of substances into electronegative (acid) and electropositive (alkaline); and atomism, which Dalton had used to explain his law. Dumas spent the next few years attempting to create an adequate system of classification of organic compounds based upon these two theories."(DSB).

Kjøbenhavn, P.G. Philipsen, 1865. 4to. Samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Lettere brugsspor. (4),61 pp. samt 5 enkeltsidede plancher i sort/hvid og 16 dobbeltsidede håndkolorerede træsnitplancher med tegninger af 69 græsarter. Indvendig frisk velbevaret eksemplar. First edition. - Pritzel: 7792.

N.Y., Macmillan Company, 1917. Orig. full cloth. Slightly rubbed along edges. XII,454 pp. Internally clean and fine. First edition.

Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1861. 4to. As extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 58. Band, 1861". Without backstrip. Fine and clean. Pp. 93-126. First printing of these two important papers on Quaternary cubics (a degree 3 homogeneous polynomial in four variables).

Stuttgart, Johann Benedikt Mezler, 1781. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Profusely gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. Stamps on title-page. (2),588,(2) pp.

London, Harrison and Sons, (1890). Orig. full pictorial cloth. Gilt back. Back neathly repaired. Corners bumped. Covers somewhat darkened and with traces of use. XII,350 pp. and 1 folded lithographed map.

London, John Murray, 1855. Orig. full cloth. A small tear at upper part of fronthinge, a few small nicks along hinges. First inner hinge broken. Stamp on title-page. VIII,645 pp., textillustrations, 2 folded plates. Somem scattered brownspots.

Asterdam, Kunst=und Industrie=Comptoir, 1809. Bound in 3 later modest hcloth. Stamp on titlepages. XXIV,448,(1);LII,460;XL,534 pp. 4 large folded engraved maps and plans, 7 folded tables. Some browning and brownspots throughout.

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1921. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Band 65. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on the pasted down front free end paper. Stamp to title page, othrewise a fine copy. Pp. 593-604 [Entire volume: (1), 736, VII pp.]. First appearance of Lenards infamous paper in which he - on the grounds of anti-Semitism - gave priority for "E=mc²" to Hasenöhrl. After Einstein had published his theory in 1905 Hasenöhrl published his results on cavity radiation. The similarity between those formulas led some critics of Einstein, up until the 1930s, to claim that he plagiarized the formula from Hasenöhrl. However, Max von Laue quickly rebutted those claims by saying that the inertia of electromagnetic energy was long known before Hasenöhrl, especially by the works of Henri Poincaré (1900) and Max Abraham (1902), while Hasenöhrl only used their results for his calculation on cavity radiation. Laue continued by saying that credit for establishing the inertia of all forms of energy (the real mass-energy equivalence) goes to Einstein, who was also the first to understand the deep implications of that equivalence in relation to relativity."Lenard’s anti-Semitism and nationalism increased. He attributed the turmoil in the newspapers about the general theory of relativity to an agreement between Einstein and the Jewish press. When the so-called Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Naturforscher zur Erhaltung reiner Wissenschaft, founded by nationalistic and anti-Semitic demagogues, began a slander campaign against Einstein in Berlin in the summer of 1920, Lenard volunteered to head the movement.The growing conflict broke into the open on 9 September 1920 at the eighty-sixth conference of the Deutsche Naturforscher und Ärzte in Bad Nauheim. The debate over the general theory of relativity turned into a dramatic duel between Einstein and Lenard. As Max Born recounted it, Lenard directed "sharp, malicious attacks against Einstein, with an unconcealed anti-Semitic bias." Fortunately, Max Planck, who was presiding over the debate, was able to prevent an uproar." (DSB).

Washington, Government Printing Office, 19o7. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth, gilt. XL,846 pp., 21 plates, 1112 textillustr. (Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology...Smithsonian Inst. 1902-19o3). First edition.

Hamburg, August Campe, 1805-06. Bound in 4 contemp. hcalf. Titlelabels on spine with gilt lettering. Lower part of spines somewhat worn after removal of paperlabels. Remains of librarynumber on spine. 2 spineends with wear. Stamps on titlepages. Titlepages and first leaves in all vols. with browning and brownspots. Some scattered brownspots throughout. Engraved portrait (Washington), XVI,280;VIII,296;VI,289;VIII,358pp. First German edition.

Stockholm, Nordisk Rotogravur, (1949). Stor 4to. Orig. helldrbd. med forgyldte rammebordurer på permer og indvendigt. (Nordika Bokhandelns Bokbinderi. Sthmk.). 579 pp. Rigt illustreret. Nr. 374 af 2000 eksemplarer. Helt frisk eksemplar i original kassette.

Kbhvn., Berlingske Arvinger ved L.H. Lillie, 1753. 4to. Helbind fra omkr. 1850 i brunt fåreskind, rygforgyldning og forgyldt bordure på forperm. Kobberstukket frontisp.(Peder Lssson). (20),XXXIV,102 pp. + Appendix (31) pp. Stor kobberst. titelvignet og 8 store kobberstukne vignetter (af Haas, de Lode, Tuscher, Cramer). Det genealogiske kobberstik mangler. Trykt på svært skrivepapir. Bladkanter i Appendix lidt brunplettede og med en svag skjold. En af de smukkeste danske rokokkobøger, inspireret af den nye franske bogkunst, som Hofman erhvervede sig et godt kendskab til i omgang med en række af tidens fornemste bogkunstnere, især i Paris.

Lund, Håkan Olssons Buckdruckerei, 1906. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. One of Rydberg's own copies with "Ueberreicht vom Verfasser" printed on frontwrapper. 30 pp., 2 large folded tables (the periodic system). First edition of important revison of the periodic system in one the author's presentation copies ("Ueberreicht vom verfasser)."Rydberg’s study of the periodic properties of the elements led him in 1897 to suggest that certain characteristics of the elements could be more simply organized by using an atomic number instead of the atomic weights. This atomic number was to be identified with the ordinal index of the element in the periodic table. In 1906 Rydberg stated for the first time (the paper offered) that 2, 8, and 18 (that is, 2n2, where n= 1,2,3) represented the number of elements in the early periods of the system. In 1913 he went further, correcting an earlier error about the number of rare earths from 36 to 32, thus allowing the n = 4 group to be included in the pattern." (DSB).

Amsterdam, Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1662. 12mo. Cont. full vellum with handwritten title on spine. Engraved titlepage. 404,(5) pp. A small nick to the vellum-flab of rearcover.Internally clean and fine. First Elzevir-edition. - Willems: 1278.

Karlsruhe und Freiburg, Herderschen Kunst Institute, (1831). Folio-oblong. (30 x 48 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Stamp on title-page. Engraved title-page. With 24 lithographed folio-plates. Faint scatte red brownspots. Klaus Jordan, 2541. Atlas only.

Leipzig, 1856. Lex8vo. Orig.printed boards. Back lost a. repaired with tape. XVIII,438 pp., 1 large lithogr. fold.plate(view), 1 fold. plan, 2 chromolithogr.plates a. many textillustr. in woodcut. Uncut. A little brownspotted as usual. - first edition.

Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1875. 4to. Uden omslag som udkommet i "Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter" Titlepage + pp. 121-252, XXI pp. samt 5 litograferede tavler med mange figurer.(Heraf 1 stort foldet).

Arnhem, Coers & Roest, (1893). Folio. Orig. full cloth, gilt spine. Upper cover richly gilt. Light wear along edges and spine-ends. All edges gilt. Frontispiece. Stamp on title-page. (10),96,(4) pp. Richly illustrated with plates and textillustrations. Internally clean. Presentation copy with a long autographed letter (in French) from the author to Linnemann general Major, dated Arnhem 30 Aout 1893.

London, R. Dodsley, 1737. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. raised bands, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Richly gilt compartments. Some cracks in leather along hinges, but holding. Gilt line-borders on covers. Corners bumped. Title-page with engraved vignette. (4),XVI,335,(1-errata) pp. A few brownspots. Broad margins, printed on good paper. First edition.

Berlin, Schneider, 1874. Folio. (65 x 70 Cm.). Orig. printed portfolio. Spine defective. With 21 large coloured maps.

Hamburg, Eckkardt & Messtorff, 1925. Folio (485x450 mm). In contemporary boards with the original wrappers pasted on to boards. Wear to extremities, internally fine and clean. 7 pp. + 14 plates.

Bologna, Nicola Zanichelli, 1913. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers (With both the regular journal issue wrappers and the offprint wrappers - as issued). Offprint from "Scientia", Band XIII, Jahr 7. (1913), N.XXVII-1. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 1-(25) - 20-(44). Offprint issue of Smoluchowski's paper on the number and size of mulecules and atoms.